Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Brute Force way (The surefire way)

The most torturing, boring and irritating way is the Bruce Force method.

This method takes a lot of time.

How it works?

- You get the email address of victim

- You gets a list of text (aaaaaaaaaaa - zzzzzzzzzzzz) and try to see if any of them is the password for the email

- Try all of the list of texts (usually MILLIONS of them) to sign in to the account

- If you can sign in, then you got it! lol

Because it is too troublesome to try one-by-one, programmers/hackers actually create a program(they call it bots) to do the testing for them. This is the reason why hotmail got that CAPTCHA whenever you tried signing in a LOT of times. :)

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Introduction

Hi. To my friends who have known me since secondary school, you know I actually do some email 'hacking' last time. I did not really hack. It is call phishing. Those were the younger days where I am more active. XD Now old liao.

And for those who just get to know me in Poly, you don't see the crazy side of me often. Old liao la. But now, I am going to reveal some simple ways I use to 'hack' email accounts when I was younger.

This is for educational purposes only. Knowing how hackers hack can help you counter potential hacking attempts